YEREVAN. – Azerbaijan will not dare to destroy Armenian civil aircrafts, Nagorno-Karabakh war hero, Major General Arkadi Ter-Tadevosyan stated during a press conference on Friday.

“The talk about destroying the Armenian planes fling from [the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) capital city] Stepanakert Airport is a babble,” Ter-Tadevosyan said. As per the General, the Azerbaijani officials’ statements to this effect are merely a manifestation of an anti-Armenian propaganda. 

“Is it not true that the Azerbaijani aircrafts [, in their turn,] fly over Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh? And what? Shall we begin destroying, too?” Ter-Tadevosyan rhetorically asked.

As for the Azerbaijani party’s clarifications that this is not about destroying but rather forced landing of the airplanes and that this is a violation of the NKR airspace, Major General Arkadi Ter-Tadevosyan noted: “So, if they violate, we [, in our turn,] will strike.”    

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